{"id":3571,"date":"2020-12-27T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.translationembassy.com\/?page_id=3571"},"modified":"2022-09-16T15:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T15:15:18","slug":"preparation-of-dictionaries-in-the-english-greek-and-french-greek-language-combinations-for-wordreference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.translationembassy.com\/en\/preparation-of-dictionaries-in-the-english-greek-and-french-greek-language-combinations-for-wordreference\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation of dictionaries in the English-Greek and French-Greek language combinations for WordReference"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Preparation of dictionaries in the English-Greek and French-Greek language combinations for WordReference<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The website www.wordreference.com<\/span><\/a> provides bilingual online general-purpose dictionaries in many language combinations, including combinations featuring Greek. In addition to dictionaries, it also has a forum users can register for and submit questions or initiate language discussions.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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MY COLLABORATION<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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My collaboration with WordReference started back in 2017 and continues to this day. This is a regular, ongoing collaboration to develop Greek language dictionaries. So far I have been involved in the process of compiling dictionaries for the English-Greek and French-Greek language pairs.<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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LEXICOGRAPHY<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Lexicography is a complex process that includes many stages and involves many people who collaborate with each other.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

FIRST STAGE<\/strong><\/p>

The work starts with linguists in the source language (in my case linguists for English and French) who initially drew up lists of terms starting from the simplest, everyday ones and gradually going onto more specialised ones. For each term, the different meanings it can assume, the different shades of meaning it may have, and other information such as the part of the speech, grammatical and syntactic comments, instructions about how to use it, etc. are set out separately. Lastly, for each shade and hue of meaning there is an example of a sentence in the source language.<\/p>

SECOND STAGE<\/strong><\/p>

Moving on to stage two, the baton is taken up by linguists in the target language. That\u2019s where I got involved in Greek. By examining the information in the source language, I can go through the terms one by one and propose suitable renditions for each individual shade and hue of meaning.<\/p>

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